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Accession number:

MS M.725

Title:

Gradual

Created:

Milan, Italy, ca. 1500.

Credit:

Purchased in 1927.

Description:

1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 208 mm

Provenance:

Olivetan monastery of SS. Michele e Niccolò at Villanova-Sillaro (near Lodi); William Young Ottley (1771-1836); his sale (London, Sotheby's, May 11, 1838, possibly lot 85); Robert S. Holford (1808-1892); Sir George Holford (1860-1926); his sale (London, Sotheby's, July 12, 1927, lot 29); purchased at this sale for the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Notes:

Ms. single leaf (cutting) from a gradual; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, ca. 1500.
Text: on back of miniature is the introit from Epiphany: et potestas et impe(rium) / ps. Deus iudi(cium) / (tu)um regida. et justi(tium).
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink, square notes.
Decoration: 1 miniature with the Adoration of the Magi; background of German houses in the miniature are derived from Albrect Dürer's engraving of the Prodigal Son; the castle on the hilltop is derived from his engraving of the Sea Monster.
M.725, cut from a gradual, and M.1090, cut from an antiphonary, probably come from the same set of choir books commissioned for the Olivetan monastery of SS Michele e Niccolò at Vilanova-Silaro (near Lodi).
Artist: Master B.F., sometimes identified as Francesco Binasco.

Script:

textura

Language:

Latin

Resources:

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Century:

15th century

Genres:

Graduals

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (Illuminations)